Fans Are Right To Be Skeptical Of New American Interest In Buying Newcastle

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

10:04am Wednesday, October 17th, 2018

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We suppose Newcastle fans have to be wary of a new takeover story coming out a few more times before we get to January.

Most of them if true – will be groups looking around at a high level – but things will not get serious until non-disclosure forms are signed.

We had the soap opera of Amanda Staveley trying to buy the club for around three months late last year and nothing came of that.

If Mike Ashley is not going to sell he should tell people that and not have this charade of saying he is trying to sell the club.

When will he take the club off the market and say that he really tried to sell it but he didn’t get any serious bids coming in.

Ashley’s said that before and we doubt he wants to sell now.

Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez

Here are some reactions from Geordie fans and they are mostly skeptical and that’s hardly surprising.

What you have to think is during the time it’s allegedly been for sale clubs such as Everton,Southampton,West Brom etc have all been taken over.None of them have anywhere near the potential of #NUFC with massive support who’s closest geographical rival is Burnley.

Also don’t buy this whole “pay £300m now, pump £100m in, get relegated and the club is only worth £150m” risk. If the club was worth £150m in the Champ, and these so-called wealthy groups could see the potential of the club, they’d have snapped it up at £150m! ? #NUFC

PR stunt by Ashley to take the pressure away from him, yeah him the man who has single handedly just about destroyed our club, the amount of money the club has received over the past 11 seasons through tv money, player sales and products the club sells through shite direct all going into ashleys pockets to buy other companies, no word from the inland revenue over there investigation into taxes at the club ect ect, politicians now on ashleys back, the media is now starting and past players having a go at him and every single fan in a toon shirt pointing the finger straight at the guilty bloke in the tacky tracksuit, a year ago it was Amanda and co, now its an American consortium with unlimited supply of money to throw at the club as were told but they wont be interested if we get relegated hmm sounds like another pr stunt to me and no doubt every bugger else on Tyneside please try another Ashley it has bells on

Why would a USA investor put money into NUFC when he knows he can never win anything due to the unlimited rosters and money that the oligarchs at a few teams provide? Until the money and rosters are capped, and a draft instituted, the only thing most owners can do is try to avoid relegation. With such sensible changes, the Prem, might no longer be the “best” league in the world, but it would become competitive for all the clubs.

This reminds me of when the Staveley bid came in and she was told that ‘another bidder’ had emerged, prepared to pay Ashley’s price. At the time, she stated “Where are the other bidders? it’s been for sale for three months’. Nothing happened with the ‘other bidder’ even though they met his asking price.

It’s nice that another bid has come in which depends on us staying in the Premiership when we are struggling. The timing is great, it should give Rafa the incentive he needs to get some wins in the hope that a sale goes through. Hang on, any cynic would think this was engineered by the club.. surely not ?

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